This, my first post on COP16, is also probably the first hopeful piece I’ve written about the climate negotiations. The next two weeks will tell if that optimism is well founded. Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 16th meeting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen Accord’
How the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With — or Without — China
Posted in UN Dispatch, tagged Cancun, China, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, Kyoto Protocol, Mexico, UN on November 30, 2010 |
Why China is Unwilling to Play the Climate Negotiation Game
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Change, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, Mexico, South Africa, UN on September 8, 2010 |
While the embattled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have been the leading climate-related news the past couple weeks, of more importance to the international negotiations were two meetings at opposite ends of the globe. A week ago Saturday, China and Japan held a one-day ministerial level meeting in Beijing to discuss economic matters, among [...]
Flooding, Fires, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding?
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged BASIC, Bonn, Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Kyoto Protocol, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, World Resources Institute on August 26, 2010 |
The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the “fast-start” climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to poor countries after the Copenhagen summit. The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nations have set aside an estimated $27.9 billion, a combined total that is only $2 billion shy of the amount they promised [...]
Mexico’s Climate Gamble: Can It Salvage the Cancun Summit?
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged China, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Kyoto, Mexico on August 23, 2010 |
Add another line to the resume: I’ve been accepted as a Huffington Post blogger. This green piece, originally written for UN Dispatch, is my first to be republished there. I have now joined hundreds of unpaid journalists, PR flacks, politicians, and celebrities who are all pushing our particular message on Arianna’s tremendously popular web platform. [...]
